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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You can’t make decisions about moving capstans until you know how friction is contributing to your problem. You shouldn’t make decisions about replacing parts without an analysis of the action leverage and the weight of the component parts. If the action was heavy with lots of lead before and you use the same specs to replace the parts why would you expect anything different? DW by itself won’t tell you much, you have to check the upweight as well. Not sure where to start but I wouldn’t look to center pin lubricants to solve your problems generally. Kansas City is offering some good classes on this very subject. Good place to start. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David Love<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>www.davidlovepianos.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul T Williams<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 22, 2011 1:16 PM<br><b>To:</b> mick johnson; caut@ptg.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [CAUT] Interesting<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Mick and all.</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I asked Mick about heavy DW on a '79 Steinway B. I just replaced all hammers and shanks with S&S parts that weighed out the same as the old ones...just a little heavier since the old ones had been filed a few times. (I call this Ham-shanks when making notes)</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Before DW was over 60g in the bass, and high 50's in the treble. Lots of lead in the keys. Ugh! (thinking about moving the capstans)</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Just for fun, before I left for a couple hours, I McLubed the wippen action centers. When I came back, the samples I juiced did indeed come down about 10g!! I'm sure it's just a short term fix, but wondered if yall have tried this?</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Paul</span> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>